Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Finally, it is peculiarly appropriate, when I have come to this city as the guest of the University of Pennsylvania, to quote another of Washington's maxims: 'Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.'

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Remarks at the Commemoration of Washington's Birthday by the University of Pennsylvania and on Receiving the Degree of...

02/21/1905

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